Sol 5.6

  1. We have a garden at home; for its blossoms have been fashioned

    necklaces of dew-jewels and pendant earrings.

  2. Whenever it breathes, there wafts around us from it

    a delicate breeze, like the Khalidi brothers’ two necklace-poems.

  3. And a true boon companion, whose prose and verse

    are spring and autumn whenever you converse with him.

  4. And water that rivals Ḥamd’s poems in its coldness—

    yet it is your life, while those are death.

  5. The cloud’s robe has now grown so sheer that it seems

    curtains from it are being unfurled below the horizon.

  6. So visit a gathering whose people God has favored

    and ennobled; truly, the man of letters is noble.

  7. Go no further than the noble man’s deeds, for he is

    a whole age unto himself—exquisite in both robes, and charming.

Sol 5.6